War Clouds Gather Over Lebanon By: An Al-Monitor Correspondent in Beirut for Al-Monitor Lebanon Pulse Posted on September 4. إقرأ باللغة العربية The Lebanese people have a feeling that war is closing in. Lebanese officials have been talking ominously of the possibility of an American strike on Syria and its expected impact on Lebanon politically, economically and in terms of security. High-ranking Lebanese officials speaking to Al-Monitor claim that if the US Congress were to give President Barack Obama the green light to strike Syria, this could increase the number of displaced Syrians in Lebanon from one million, according to UN figures, to about 2.25 million. This number constitutes a very high percentage of the population of the whole of Lebanon. It is also worth mentioning the increasing number of Palestinian refugees who escaped Syria to Lebanon. Thus, the numbers of Palestinian and Syrian refugees combined together are nearly equal to about half of the Lebanese resident population. Read more: al-monitor/pulse/originals/2013/09/lebanon-syria-strike-war-scenarios.html#ixzz2dzajXQ21
Posted on: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 05:16:32 +0000
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